You may not know the name J.B. Woodman, but he is what can happen when process and charts take precedence over old-school scouting in baseball.

The Blue Jays’ second pick in the 2016 major league draft is 24 years old and already out of baseball. He was taken 57th overall.

Nine picks later, many Jays scouts held their breath on the way to selecting Bo Bichette, whom they badly wanted, with their third pick of the draft. They were that excited, that nervous. They knew they wanted him, but also knew that process was in their way. With the 66th pick in the second round, they selected Bichette, whom general manager Ross Atkins had never seen play.

This was Atkins’ first draft with the Jays. This was president Mark Shapiro’s first, too. Having been through much success in Cleveland, they came up with a template of what they wanted to accomplish in that draft. The Jays’ scouting staff was essentially instructed — which happens often in sports — about what kind of player to look for and invest time in.

What Shapiro and Atkins didn’t want — and were adamant about it — were high-school players. They especially didn’t want high-school position players.

Woodman, a position player, played his ball in the SEC at Ole Miss.

Bichette played his baseball at Lakewood High School, a pitch and a putt away from the Jays’ spring training home in Dunedin.

Most of the Jays scouts liked Bichette way better than Woodman — but that was a fight they would lose at the time. They had to pick their spots.

So here was the problem, especially for those who saw something special in Bichette, a year before he was draft age. The Jays watched him regularly. Area scout Matt Bishoff did much of the background work, as area scouts often do.

Those who know this story best call him the star of the Bichette story, other than the player himself. He got to know Bichette. Got to know his habits, his high school, his parents, almost everything you could get to know about the young shortstop. Bishoff watched him play high school games, play in off-season all-star tournaments, watched him work out at times with Troy Tulowitzki and Josh Donaldson.

The beginning of Bo Bichette as a Blue Jay definitely begins with Matt Bishoff.

Then came the national cross-checkers. The more excited they were about Bichette, the more they watched him. The Jays paraded scout after scout to Florida. They never missed an at-bat.

Brian Parker, now with the Dodgers, watched. Dana Brown, now with the Braves, watched. Chuck LaMar, the former Tampa Bay GM, watched. Ross Bove, still with the Blue Jays as special-assignment scout, was an influential voice in the process.

But, still, there was a problem: How could the scouts convince Atkins that they were going to invest a reasonably high pick in Bichette? And because Bichette had some leverage regarding college, they also had the concern they would have to overpay to get him.

This wasn’t an easy conversation. Depending on who you speak to about this, there were levels of contention here. And another perception to get over: Bichette’s older brother, Dante Jr., had been a first-round draft pick of the New York Yankees five years earlier, and that hadn’t turned out well. Dante Jr. has never played beyond double-A.

Jays shortstop Bo Bichette is on a 30-homer pace, but it took scouts a lot of convincing to get upper management to agree to draft him out of high school. GETTY IMAGES

But the Jays’ scouts had put two full years into watching Bo play. They loved his exaggerated swing and the unlikely plate discipline that accompanied it. They pegged him more as a second baseman back then than the shortstop he has turned out to be. They liked the way he played against the highest level of competition and how his game always got better in those situations. And even though he had a big swing, he was not described a free swinger by the Blue Jays scouts.

The 2016 major league draft is not exactly one of the ages. Mickey Moniak went first to Philadelphia. Maybe he’ll play one day, maybe not. The best pick, Pete Alonso, went to the Mets two picks before the Jays nabbed Bichette. He’s got 47 homers and a home-run derby win under his belt as a rookie. The 63 players taken before Alonso have combined for 52 home runs. Bichette has hit 10 in 161 at bats — a 30-plus pace in his first big-league campaign.

“We had great information on the kid, his makeup, and his family,” said a scout involved in the process. “Through his dad, he got to know some of our players. And I think we were an attractive team to him because he had worked out with our players and because we were an attractive team because of what we were doing in the big leagues.”

On draft day 2016, there was no argument about what to do with Bichette. Those conversations had already taken place. Some of them heated, we’re told. By then, the scouting staff had convinced upper management that Bichette was worth the selection — even if they had to pay him significantly more than the slotted salary for the pick.

It took some massaging of upper management to get Atkins to agree to take a high-school player with such a high pick.

Now the Jays have two future stars in Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette. One came via former GM Alex Anthopoulos, now in Atlanta, and with the background work of Ismael Cruz, now with the Dodgers. Outside of Bishoff, most of the others involved in the scouting of Bichette have since moved on.

Two months after Bo Bichette was drafted, scouting director Brian Parker, who fought for the selection, was fired.